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From Wikipedia:
Elsie Stephen Meighen - born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario - and Robert Wilson Reford - born in 1867, Montreal - got married on June 12, 1894.
Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.
Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.
She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.
In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.
During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.
In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.
Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.
To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.
Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.
In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)
LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS
Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.
Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada
Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada
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This beautiful old church is in the tiny village of Copper Center, Alaska. I think that the log construction is very interesting, from the foundation; to the old wooden cross on the top of the steeple.
Fellowship Park
Hwy. 126
Blountville, Tn.
From the Blountville First Baptist Church website:
"The historic log structure from the late 1700s was built in an area possibly known as Sapling Grove in Johnson County, Mountain City, Tn. In the late 1950's it was moved to Elizabethton where it was part of a tourist attraction which included a house that belonged to Andrew Johnson (seventeenth president of the United States). The church was purchased and donated to First Baptist by JoAnn Steele in memory of her husband, John H. Steele.
It was relocated to Fellowship Park after spending a year in her barn. JoAnn has been the driving force of "re-creating" this historic church. In features antique handmade pews and handmade furniture from the Steele family. The doors were made from wood removed from their barn which over a hundred years old. The floors came from trees cut and sawed on their farm by her husband. Most of the hardware is original and made by a blacksmith."
This was the fanciest of the log cabins on this property, the only one with tongue and groove construction.
Quite a few of the abandoned farm buildings in this area of Manitoba are made of logs.
Log with lovely lichen growth, La Honda, San Mateo County, Santa Cruz Mountains, California. Seen along the "Swing Trail annex".
In one day exploring south of Lake Diefenbaker, we witnessed so many crazy different kinds of cloud patterns in this wonderful sky.
Log Valley, Saskatchewan
July 2016
It's quite intriguing to hear about he stories of the famous "Beach Logs Kill" signs on the Washington state coast. But once you experience the stormy conditions for yourself, you see why it those signs were put up in the first place. Huge tree logs, mostly hundreds of years old, line up the wild beaches and are swept by the waves like mere twigs. Now that is the power of nature!
I just love these little islands of life loosely known as nurse logs. This one happens to be a stump, but it is a haven for all kinds of living things and clearly this little colony is thriving.
Archived in color and reworked in sepia.
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The log store at Viseu with 764-449 (Resita 1188 of 1955) setting back past the shed yard towards the rolling stock sidings on 7th October 2016. This has been totally rebuilt in the last year or so from a ramshackle but delightful old shed that I suppose had seen better days. Much rain had fallen during the previous day and overnight and the Vaser river was running red and uncrossable in wellington boots. There were also a few puddles around!
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This log look upset like I was with this gray autumn morning in Tremblant national park Quebec Canada
60087 powers 6J37, the 1258 Carlisle Yard – Chirk logs, through a wintry Garsdale on 12 February 2018.
Log Hollow Branch Falls
Pisgah National Forest
North Carolina
Log Hollow Falls is a 25 ft waterfall on Log Hollow Creek in the Pisgah National Forest of the Appalachian Mountains.
The cover has been removed from the right wall where a bugged phone was relocated after its removal and its bugging facility completed. The whiteboard has been removed from the facing wall. All documents and data destruction logs on above are *lost* according to the Home Office/MoJ.
The Union phone at work was cut off.
Instructions were given to Frances, the telephonist, not to allow calls through.
A victimization meeting was held instructing staff to victimise re use of their phones to enable Prettypetal to do job and they followed those instructions.
All above authorized and carried out with the full knowledge and intent of the Governor. *
Home Secretaries:
▶️Mr. Jack Straw
▶️Ken Clarke KC 📮Lord Clarke of Nottingham - House of Lords 2026
▶️Ken Baker 📮Baron Baker of Dorking - House of Lords 2026 London U.K.
🔴Ms. Jac [Jacqui/Jackie/Jacqueline] Harvey - [Prison Lead for Libraries, Families and I.T.] and former Head of Education at Holloway jail sent Pp a handwritten memo re above removal of phone at the end of which she wrote "Richard [Mr. Richard Brown] agreed to this". She later bravely admitted the contents of her Memo was a complete fabrication.
Governors
Ex-Governor ▶️Mr. Tim Michael O'Sullivan
Ex-Assistant Governor: ▶️Mr. David M Lancaster
"What rolls down stairs
alone or in pairs,
and over your neighbor's dog?
What's great for a snack,
And fits on your back?
It's log, log, log
It's log, it's log,
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good."
Everyone wants a log
You're gonna love it, log
Come on and get your log
Everyone needs a log
log log log"
~ Ren & Stimpy
Another view of 56051 'Survival' as it crosses in front of the Skirrid with 6Z51 17.24 Baglan Bay to Chirk Kronospan logs.
I’m guessing Colas were running short of traction and were forced to “hire in” from Freightliner, 70015.
On a glorious late autumn day I was considering where to get a nice full shot of 6J37, the 12:58 Carlisle-Chirk logs and at the last moment realising I was running out of time decided to head just south of Selside. Here I made it across the field as 015 almost effortlessly passes through.
Taken on 2nd October 2019.
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